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Hi, A few weeks ago, my desktop PC had to be returned to the manufacturer for repair, so I had to move my email to my laptop. I have 9 email accounts (3x yahoo, 3 x Microsoft, 2 x GMX and a Gmail). I used to train adults how to use a computer or laptop (basic training) so had addresses for different providers, so I was familiar with anything they could throw at me! Some don't get a lot of use now, but I like to keep them, for the odd occasion. All the accounts loaded sweetly at the time, some requiring 2FA, but none needing any App Passwords. A week ago My laptop had a catastrophic problem requiring me to restore to factory defaults. Since then, I have been reinstalling all the programs/apps to get it something like it was before the disaster occurred. Obviously, as part of the process, I had to reinstall Thunderbird. However, I have not been able to get any of the accounts to get set up on Thunderbird. The settings are found in the database and passed as okay, but I've been getting messages like: "Unable to login at server. Probably wrong configuration, username or password." I know the settings are correct because I have double-checked them very carefully, and I also use Bitwarden to ensure the Username and Password are correct. Initially I had wondered whether it was just one account that was a problem, and had tried other (alternative and approved) port and security settings but got a "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account" message. I am puzzled, because about 3 weeks ago everything went in so easily, and I completed all nine accounts one after the other in probably less than half an hour, and now I can't complete any. I'm obviously playing with the idea of trying another email program, but also liked the calendar in Thunderbird. I'll attach some screen prints below. I also use Nord VPN, but for a fortnight it didn't matter whether Nord VPN was on or off, Thunderbird was brilliant. Today I was wondering whether that was having an effect, so I switched on Split Tunnelling, and applied Thunderbird, but it made no difference. So my next thought was whether as part of the Factory reset of the Laptop, not all the registry entries for Thunderbird had been cleared, or that there was some files somewhere that had escaped the purge and Thunderbird was still pointing to them. However, that didn't make sense, because I had Uninstalled Thunderbird with BC Uninstaller and deleted entries found after uninstallation, before I reinstalled it. So what can I do other than find some other email product, which seems unlikely at present! Kind regards.

Hi!

We have email info@dorsum.by on Yandex

We changed the domain owner to the new account.

Before changing we exported all mails from account with zip backup.

Now we created the new info@dorsum.by email.

When I trying to import backuped account old letters dont appear in the new email account. When Imported it shows 18k emails, but we can't scroll down to see them. When relaunch the app only new emails (29) are shown.

How to import letters correct?

Thank you!

Hello, I just downloaded the Thunderbird email client and am trying to add my gmail accounts, but it won't accept them and says it is unable to log in at server. The gmail pop-up should happen to allow access, but no pop-up happens. I have followed the instructions per your guidelines (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/automatic-conversion-google-mail-accounts-oauth20), enabled cookies and added exceptions, but have had no success. Please help.

Problem: newly added account disappears when TB is closed. Thunderbird on this PC (Dell Latitude 6540) has held a Verizon account for years. The "new" account is a different, equally old Verizon account kept on TB in an identical PC I no longer use. When added to TB on the present PC it tests and works fine until TB is closed. Repeated numerous times. Having read thread # 1286437 I did what follows , to no avail: 1. tried TB in troubleshoot mode; 2. tried in Windows safe mode; 3. cleared startup cache; 4. drastically pruned old emails; 5. looked up profile folder under troubleshooting info. Folder qxxxxxxd ( size 1.18 GB before adding new account) holds one folder tree, one directory tree, but NO prefs.js file. Instead, twenty-two prefs-xx.js files from 1 to 22; removed all to a thumb drive except prefs-1.js which I dared not rename as prefs.js; 6. found two profile folders, both labeled default. One is the above holding 1.18 GB, the other holds 685 MB (probably harmless and related to an old university account no longer extant). I copied both profile folders to a thumb drive. Note: profile folder qxxxxxxd is clearly engaged in what I am attempting. When TB is open with the added new account working -- which is the case as I am writing --, profile folder size increases from 1.18 to 1.20 GB and the number of folders increases by one (under "Mail" the list of pop.verizon-xx.net sub-folders increases from 17 to 18). Please advise on what to do next; I am 86 and no software geek, but can follow instructions... Thanks --Paul

Hi,

I have an issue: How to change the location of the Thunderbird's profile folder to another partition (non system)?

When I do so by: 1. Changing in setting destinanion folder to the new one; 2. Closing the program (Thunderbird); 3. moving the directory folder with my profile to the new destinanion according to procedure below: https://support.mozilla.org/pl/kb/profile-thunderbirda#w_przenoszenie-profilu 4. Starting the program it end with error of missing profile.

I have 2 email accounts. On my windows10 Laptop both accounts work OK. On my Windows11 Laptop my emails for account #1 go to both accounts. Emails to account #2 do not come in to either account. I have tried several times deleting account #2 and adding back but to no avail. I also am unable to send from account #2. All settings look good on both accounts.

Tom Romstadt t.romstadt@att.net

Trying to place my local folders directly in my mac os user directory as a mounted, encrypted drive, with the rest of Thunderbird under the Library subdirectory. Looking in this directory (mounted gocryptfs) shows the expected files.

When I first open Thunderbird, there's nothing in local folders. The account setting for local folders indicates /Users/me/Mail. Nothing showing in Local Folders. I select browse, and again choose /Users/me/Mail directory. Still nothing showing in Local Folders.

I close Thunderbird, then reopen Thunderbird. Local Folders now there and showing all expected files. So there's your work-around, but why isn't Thunderbird just opening Local Folders as expected ? Ownership and permissions on directories seem the same as on all my other accounts.

David

An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: Request failed: Mailbox unavailable-verify address. Address is okay.

This seems to be covered in several archived cases. Solution being to change name of outgoing SMTP server. so that each account is associated with a different SMTP server. I have three yahoo accounts. One is legacy AT&T. No issue at this time Cannot send on Acct B. It has all account settings same as account A. When I attempt to change SMTP outgoing server on account B to the newly named SMTP server It chanes both accounts to new name, Sets new name as default and account B is still unable to send.

This is a new problem. Been a Tbird user since it's inception. V128.3 Windows 10 up to date